Hearse



(No Model.)

M. P. DEININGER.

HEARSE.

No. 380,622. I Patented Apr. 3, 1888.

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PATENT Enron.

MICHAEL F. DEININGER, OF BROOKLYN, NEYV YORK.

HEARS E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 380,622, dated April 8, 1888.

Application filed January 2-1, 1888. Serial No. 261,748. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that L'MIQHAELF. DEININGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of Few York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hearses, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relate to hearses; and it consists in providing the hearse pillars or standards with detachable blocks supporting ornaments or emblems, substantially as set forth hereinafter, and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view of a hearse-pillar, showing a supporting-blockin partsection and illustrating my improvement. Figs. 2 to 4 are views illustrating blocks with different emblems. Fig. 5 is a sectional'view illustrating a block, pillar, and spring-catch.

The hearse is provided, as usnahwilh corner standards, a, which support the roof and draperies, and in many instances there is another central standard upon the roof,which standards it is common to carve in the form of urns or to ornament by means of detachable plumes.

On account of the difference in taste of different people, ornaments or emblems which are unobjectionable or desirable to some are very objectionable to others, and this necessitates the use of different hearses, or where a single hearse-bod y is employed the entire top must be made detachable and a number of tops of different kinds be employed. To avoid such expense I make the hearse with the usual standards; but, instead of providing them with the usual ornamental or emblematic terminal portions, I form at the top of each a central pin or finger, e, and I then provide a block, f, adapted to support the desired ornaments or emblems, and I provide each block with a socket, m, to receive said pin e, and with a channel, 3 to receive a feather, 1), whereby to prevent the block from turning, or I make the pin and socket angular. I can thus vary the character of the ornaments or emblems at pleasure by merely removing the blocks f.

In Fig. 1 is shown a block supporting abird, either stuffed or carved or molded. In Fig. 2 the block supports a cross, in Fig. 3 it supports a hand holding an inverted torch, and in Fig. 4 the block is socketed to receive the stem of one of the usual plumes.

In order to retain the block in place and yet permit its ready detachment, I prefer to use a spring-catch, s, secured to the pin e,and having ashoulder, t, engaging with ashouldenupf the block, the end of the catch being bent out, so as to permit the finger to be applied to push it in and release the block.

Any other suitable means of securing the block to the pillar or standard and of locking and unlocking it may be employed.

WVithout limiting myself to the precise construction and arrangementof parts shown, I claim- 1. A hearse provided with corner pillars and blocks f, fitted detachably thereto and supporting ornaments or emblems, substantially as described.

2. The combination, in a hearse, of corner pillars, detachable blocks supporting orna ments or emblems, one socketed to receive a pin on the other, and a spring-catch, substantialiy as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

- MICHAEL F. DEININGER. lVitnesses:

LOUIS BADER,

O. VINCENT \VARREN. 

